been spurred on by t.v. and newspapers artie's honest answer churkin to reports. innocent until proven guilty it's a whole mark principle of the american justice system legally after shoved aside from the vigor of some of the arrests young african black and brown subjects being sat down in the street and an obsessive kind of way fifty shots sixty sets laying on our stomach in our back as we run or as we walk or flee to beating suspects into offenses in cases of entrapment entrapment is not legal entrapment is getting someone to do something that they would normally do to perp walks that parade suspects in handcuffs for the world to see. to a media frenzy devouring some cases and not others i finally did before that i see it as guilty until proven guilty in these cases government is changing the laws sam and is

a former white collar convict who knows the criminal justice systems discrepancies inside and out i read while on the road to yours. covering up my crimes when i decided to cooperate with the reds it took the feds two more years. now a teacher he says media coverage also affects the jury pool they see the image of a guy in handcuffs and see an image of a person being arrested they see the image of a person doing the perp walk and they're affected just like everybody else. so are you presumed guilty from the get go and how much of a role does the media play if you're accused of the most crime it's going to be in huge headlines on page one when you're exonerated it's on page twenty seven below the fold two column inches and your neighbors somehow didn't manage to catch it that day so everyone still thinks you're a child molester take the not guilty verdict in the casey anthony murder case involving her two year old daughter the court of public opinion remains split from

a court of justice all thanks to nonstop media coverage of the case for the past three years. it's crazy and i think it's made me appreciate and i get it but from the media assume she was going to be able to in the case of former i.m.f. head dominique strauss kahn the media satisfied their gluttonous taste with extreme passion only for the case to crumble i think there should be all. media outlets are required to play your exoneration up as big around as long as your accusation this is rarely the case as dubious practices in the criminal justice system spread so does the finger pointing and questioning the future of human rights in the us where as we go in as americans and since the one news oh and i'm like oh. this is getting now going this is really good the principles that the u.s. once prided itself in are going to fire suspects of having to fight their battles

publicly the minute they are arrested in attempts to prove their innocence underlining that the discrepancies in the u.s. criminal justice system are alive and kicking and the citric and i are to be on the march towards a new reborn egypt has slowed to a crawl now the interim leaders have been sent the strongest message yet that they're not doing enough with tens of thousands turning out for the biggest protest in months demonstrators filled tahrir square in cairo and gathered in other cities angry that the interim government is dragging its heels on the reforms demanded when they toppled president mubarak egyptians are also frustrated at the sluggish pace of prosecuting senior officials and police officers accused of brutality during february's uprising for them mubarak's shadow still looms large international relations professor mark on and says the revolution may have brought more trouble than change. the expectations that the fall of mubarak could be followed by a change of regime hasn't really come about but barak and his family and closest cruize have been imprisoned or accused will go on trial next month of all sorts of

crimes against the people against the interests of country but of course field marshal tantawi members of the military ruling council with his appointees to great extent across egypt people do see that the local boss the local head of the stray ship has changed so there's a sense that the old regime was decapitated but minus mubarak it's still in power ironically one of the big reasons of the revolution people's economic discontent social this contentious it was a show about unemployment and so on actually the process of getting rid of mubarak has made in the short term the economy worse i do think really there's an easy. to egypt's economic problems because global oil prices global food prices and so on are rising and egypt is essentially important. so to come here in the program in it to win it we take you to india where enterprising young people are turning small businesses into big profits. first though georgia says it's convinced

a group of high profile photo journalists were spying for russia the group includes the president's personal photo again all are under arrest they're accused of passing secret information to russia russian special services and will face court in september but not the first to have the finger of suspicion pointed at them last year thirteen people were detained accused of being spies on russia's payroll earlier this week and nine of them were found guilty and sentenced up to fourteen years behind bars. the billionaire owner of britain's best selling newspaper is due to arrive in london to deal with the fallout from a phone hacking scandal at the news of the world rupert murdoch is closing the hundred sixty year old paper its last edition will be published on sunday earlier the tabloids former editor andy colson was released on bail he was at the paper when it allegedly intercepted a phone calls from murder victims and dead soldiers families and later went on to become the prime minister's mediate he denies knowing about the hacking two other

people were also arrested as public opinion turned against the paper prime minister cameron promised inquiries into press ethics and practices john gone who used to work for the news of the world sister paper says britain's media is too close to the political elite. many of us were calling for a full public inquiry led by a judge and cameron has been dragged into this position he's now willing to let it happen six truly embarrassing for at least part of what's called the chipping condom set which is a rule paul two of britain he lives down there at the weekend rebecca brooks lives down there son colin nish lives down there is a whole set you can to make socially that set was a different set when labor in power we tried but all of it is too cozy and too comfortable if you don't have a real democracy you have to have a separation between the press surely i mean days. the political establishment and the government of the day you also need to have separation between the judiciary and those two areas in britain and the united kingdom they have become too close

over the last thirteen or fourteen years and i believe that last may not ordinary people in britain their views have not really been represented either in the newspapers or in the political arena that's bad for democracy so david cameron should start investigating himself as far as i'm concerned i wore i would your employer a man who's already had to resign over phone hacking allegations why would you take him to the heart of government where he could have access to top secret dossier as an information it's a sorry sorry day let me tell you not just for the british press but for british democracy. two hundred people may have been killed in a series of explosions that shook the term turkmenistan city of abu dhabi local media sources report the blast happened at an ammunition depot but the government continues to claim it was due to fireworks materials r t contacted the editor of a human rights website in turkmenistan who gave us more details. started with

a blast that was followed by a series of explosions panic spread among people immediately as people didn't know what was going on the government's reaction came too late only eight hours after the explosion did the first military and emergency vehicles start coming to a bit down from the capital we know the blast occurred at two ammunition depots the fire hasn't been extinguished yet there's one which can potentially blow up. officials say the explosions were caused by firework materials but there's enough evidence to prove it was ammunition around two hundred people are believed to have died half of them soldiers others are civilians many of them are children it's difficult to say how many people have been injured how many apartment buildings schools and shops lie in ruins and the rick ace's of looting. the web site chronicles of turkmenistan also reports of a total media blackout the country state china was showing entertainment programs instead of news bulletins meanwhile police are being ordered to detain anyone who tries to take pictures or mobile phone footage of the affected area and other

website talks of crowds of children wandering the streets looking for their parents many people can't contact families and friends because of disruption to phone lines and the cabinet held an emergency meeting on the situation but gave no further details turkmenistan has a long history of being a secretive state with the internet banned until recently. still to come drawing a line in intimate liaisons. the problem is more often to women. with high profile sex scandals dominating front page news the resident in new york asks how best to tackle the unwanted attention. and in russia close up a city migration causes villages to die out we discover how to succeed even in the middle of nowhere. first though with a population of more than a billion and a growing economy opportunities are there for india's enterprising entrepreneurs

and it's young people who are seizing the initiative by turning their passions into profits as our reports they've got an eye on their culture as much as capitalism. downstairs in a dusty basement and delis okla neighborhood you'll find twenty six year old pitbull kamar this is one of several of its manufacturing sites it's small and weak but it's one of the offices kamar uses to make sporting equipment including tats he's also working to mastermind a sports curriculum for hundreds of schools around india in an attempt to build an empire that he hopes will change the sporting culture in his country forever that was the gap in the market then was the you know. video quality. as far as sports in. this tree as a whole was concern so. it's there for the whole industry and right now he's the number one guy in india doing it in the short time his company has been around its profits have increased two hundred percent per month and he's been named

one of the top ten young entrepreneurs in the country it's a massive undertaking especially in a country where studies have always been prioritized over sports but kumar as part of a growing movement of young people who believe that they can change cultural mentalities and implement new ideas in their country we have so many graduates coming over for new. things to do it every year. for a small percentage of them decided to go you know i don't think it's going to produce. entrepreneurship is becoming a hot field for young people in india while many of the parents of the students on india's college campuses viewed government medicine engineering as stable and prestigious the younger generation is seeing innovation as key to the future according to the indian government the number of small and medium enterprises in this country is rising by fifteen percent. while their peers in the west are struggling to find jobs during this financial crisis many leaders are encouraging

their youth to continue to focus on innovation despite the unstable times we know what it takes to compete for the jobs and industries of our time we need to innovate educate and outbuild the rest of the world. it's a pursuit that some believe could shift the power dynamics in the world and. in next. innovation those who are going to prove themselves in india in the new startups. of succeeding in the global stage kumar and his fellow entrepreneurs admit that starting a venture can be stressful but they try to focus on the positives they believe it has for themselves and their country making a difference. you believed in something you thought this is this is what is doesn't exist and i want to do something about it creating new jobs for their people while dressed in their countries in the prius are either r t new delhi india turnout of

some other stories making headlines across the globe there is a new country on the world map south sudan is now an independent state after decades of bloody civil war thousands have gathered to celebrate in the city of juba which is the new now the capital of local and foreign dignitaries are currently attending an independent ceremony at the mausoleum south sudan is a mainly christian region and struggled through the years of conflict with the muslim north which left one and a half million people dead. malaysia's biggest political demonstration in years has led to more than six hundred people being arrested in the capital the opposition rally was the culmination of weeks of pressure on the prime minister for electoral reforms ahead of national polls expected next year police used tear gas to disperse the crowd saying the protest was illegal the national front has been in power for almost six decades and there are growing calls for change. almost half a million people have taken to the streets of the syrian city of hamas demanding

president assad step down the protest was filmed during a visit by the french and u.s. ambassadors which was strongly condemned by syrian authorities meanwhile the u.s. has summoned syria's ambassador after getting reports that the country's diplomats are filming people protesting peacefully in america. former u.s. first lady betty ford has died at age ninety three she was the widow of president gerald ford founded the renowned drug and alcohol rehab center that bears her name ford was considered one of the most visible first ladies in america should be buried in michigan alongside her husband whom she was married for almost sixty years. pakistani police in karate have been ordered to shoot on sight after three days of clashes there left eighty people dead the violence that brought the city to a standstill is blamed on armed gangs or his military contributor says stabilizing pakistan is the key to bringing peace to the region. here comes the new plan for

the new u.s. policy for pakistan and afghanistan when it comes to peace and security in afghanistan you have to think about pakistan what afghanistan needs right now has nothing to do with surging or d. surging american forces on the ground whatever ganesan really needs right now is a wake up call as the only way to re-unite all tribes and all other factions the only way to save afghanistan from narco is to conduct the top level negotiations with the pakistani military to reddit ploy the american ground forces from afghanistan to southern part of pakistan along the pakistani border and to lead the pakistani raunchier corps to take their position within our student stuff. there are some accusations that even if proved false can still proof

a little to one's reputation as former i.m.f. chief knows to its cost online talk show host laurie harford has to ask people in new york what this means for people's definition of when things go too far. the sexual assault cases of d s k angelina stands are getting a lot of coverage in the news do you think it's right for women or men to report any sexual encounter they feel uncomfortable with this week let's talk about that if she feels that she's been violated i think reporting is the best idea and how that plays out you know that that's how that plays out the reporting is should be a woman's instinct at what point does it cross over to consider just for taishan. yeah it's a it's a tough line between those two people with just two people it's impossible i think women should not get in situations i think there are lots of times that we put ourselves in situations and we have a messenger insiders that says get out of there and sometimes we don't listen to

that message. or she says no it's a no is it the same for women and for man one hundred percent. so why do we treat it more as a woman's issue because it happens more often to women. but men have a pride to go so. it's about money rich get rich and poor gets for. good this just another way for women to get rich. so do you think it's fair that the law generally tends to side with women. and i think it's impossible to really say what's fair what's not at this point again like ari ari what fair change so much i think in general my inclination is to say yes it is because women have for the most part have been the victims for so many years that you almost have to side more with them in. order to make it equal it's like affirmative action in a way like you have to do something to make things better so that they're not

always the victims no matter how you feel about the lines of sexual assaults the bottom line is that the rule no means no will always be a good one to follow. and you'll find plenty more online in our t. dot com here's what's a click away right now. anger at israel for stopping activists latest efforts to get aid to blockaded gaza as the country bars some two hundred people from flying in to tell of the and others. a cosmic camera for the space station is canada plans to map every inch of the planet with high resolution results zoom into r.t. dot com for our video report. working in the countryside can be a breath of fresh air as we discover in today's edition of russia a close up. we're

taking you two thousand kilometers east of moscow to the court in a region in southern siberia one of the many areas where entire villages are becoming ghost towns as young people move to cities and the older generation get fewer in number but there's one place where residents have good reason to stay or he starts unavoidable finds out where. here we are in the village of caste. they call grand region and for the past ten or fifteen years its population has been steadily increasing here is the reason why. it's monday morning and the xander form of prison guard is its work testing the incoming employees for alcohol. if they're over the limit there is a choice to be cited for a no show and lose thirty percent of them on salary my job three kilometers and be docked ten percent of that months wage those who do the testing every morning

regardless of gender or position within the company could be cool but they will see it on their paycheck and that's a strong incentive not to drink you new working week. inforced alcohol abstinence is the idea of this man alexander able to cough is the director of the still such plan and likes to extend his influence as far as possible a man of big ideas to the very epitome of micro-management for the past fifteen years he's been preaching to his employees how to make good sausages and how to live a good life. while he is a must it's the quality of the product to give you this job in the first place and it's the quality that determines whether you'll keep it after firing dozens of workers for showing up drunk at work or xander started laughter in his employees on the harms of all the whole three times a day during with breaks. the holy roman emperor charlemagne said that those could drunk for the first time should be beaten with a stick those court for the second time should be beaten in public court for the

third time should be hanged as a former boxer he's not shy about exercising his rule with an r in face and has built his version of the iron curtain around his plan with dozens of video cameras around the facility employees have no chance to circumvent the law of big brother on the off side thefts and no longer the issue. although the rules are very rigid and most people find it hard to comply but those who don't play by alexander's rules don't work here. alexander's drive to set the rules of the game doesn't and within his plan the only corporate tax payer in the village of four thousand people he's taken on a very wide notion of social responsibility using the plants profits he paved only local roads renovated the school and built the church and while he agrees that modesty is a virtue of his fondness of giving guidance and advice is evident wherever he goes

in you are it doesn't matter that you come from a village what matters most is to get a good education thank god we've got good teachers and behave well in school is that clear. but this approach has divided villagers the majority believe alexander is a blessing or a minority and primarily doe's who he's fired and not as impressed. as the old saying goes one man's meat is another man's poison not everybody in this village appreciates alexander philosophy and he's tenacity in spreading it around some people call him a control freak others to resort to more great cultural language his opponents also include some local officials who believe that alexander has too much power that infringes on their own authority but ill xander accuses them of not doing enough for the people when i ask him whether he'd like to run for office he's a response was a resounding no but you're blessed i think the whole purpose of power is to create

to make life around you better and in this regard i have all the power that i need as for the iron fist i think every successful activity requires discipline strict discipline and it starts with me instead of waiting for somebody to come and do something i do it myself i may offend other people but sooner or later they'll understand that i was doing it for the wrong good. many historians make the case that russians prefer authoritarian leaders and tackling the deep problems of alcohol addiction and rural isolation need street discipline and total control good or bad in the xander scase it seems to have proved efficient while as you can see this little village has really become an and general growth for the entire region attracting dozens and even hundreds of people from other settlements bigger cities and even now the countries we are now joined by your going schwing join business man who works for a danish company trading in make cultures thank you for

a time you're going to as far as i understand the majority of business in russia is centered on moscow and st petersburg biggest cities and here we are in the middle. no worry in siberia what are your initial impressions so far i'm very impressed of both these villagers it's my first time to be in russia and the village really on the countryside it looks really like let's say fifty sixty a spectrum and some something like this i know that you had a chance to get to know xander the boss the big boss here and he's very charismatic person who cares not only about the quality of his products bad about the lifestyle of his. employees and. i'm sure you were present that alcohol a lecture and a lecture on the harms of alcohol and smoking and i think for many western people this is a sort of strange concept that somebody your boss would like sure you're on how you should leave your lives i mean this is simply an intrusion on somebody's privacy

what do you think about that that's true and i for the first time and see in the first time i was also really very impressed but it's a very nice tool to push the people in this direction and to improve fear infrastructure and to support the people for better life it's a very very good idea. and surely we continue our journey around russia takes us to around st petersburg coming your way after our top stories stay with us.

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a journey. where did it take. the close up team as being to the republic of north ascension where half of the area is occupied by nature preserve. this time for our cheap goes to the region where men flock from all over the world to add a few centimeters to their self-confidence where young families are not hesitant about having a senior citizen in their family and where one man's utopia turns into a real village of the shining sun welcome to the cool gun region. russia blows up on.

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two thirty pm in moscow these are your r t headlines trial by news we look at what happens in the u.s. when a jury says not guilty but the media thinks differently american single mother casey anthony was cleared of murdering her two year old daughter this week but it's done little to sway public opinion that's been spurred on by t.v. and newspapers. egypt's tahrir square sees a tidal wave of protesters in the strongest demonstrations since february is uprisings are demanding speedy reforms from the interim government which they say echoes the regime they picked out. two hundred people are believed to have died in turkmenistan after a series of explosions local reports say i mean and i mean nation depot blew up but the government is blaming a firework incident with no word on casualties. next we explore what st petersburg has to offer during the blistering summer stay with us.